We acknowledge the Elders and Custodians, past, present, and emerging and their ongoing commitment to the care of these river systems and their associated cultural significance as well as environmental restoration and maintenance. This River, and its Land was never ceded.
Acknowledgement of Country
The Dja Dja Wurrung Clans Aboriginal Corporation (trading as Djaara) are recognised as the Traditional Owners in the upper part of the Loddon catchment. The Barapa Barapa and Wamba Wemba people are recognised as Traditional Owners in the lower part of the catchment. There are artefacts of cultural practices throughout the Loddon and Pyramid system and its floodplain.
The Loddon River
Indigenous names include:
Yolelerwil-meerin, Byerr (Aboriginal)
Yarrayn, Minne-minne, Pullergil-yaluk, Gunbungwerro (Djadjawurrung)
Woppoon (Wamba Wemba)
Gunbungwerro, Mudyin gadjin (Barapa Barapa)
The Loddon River was named by Thomas Mitchell in 1836 after the River Loddon in the English counties of Berkshire and Hampshire.
Source: Wikipedia
The Loddon River flows from the Great Dividing Range in the south over 420 kilometres to the Murray River in the north. The middle section of the Loddon River is characterised by many distributary streams and anabranches that carry water away from the river onto the floodplain. Pyramid Creek joins the lower Loddon River at Kerang, at which point the Loddon becomes part of the Murray River floodplain. (VEWH)
There are water storage reservoirs and weirs.
Why walk with the Loddon River?
Walking shares … that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world.
(Solnit, 2001, p.29)
Walking is a rhythmic and creative mode of being-in-the-world that embraces the twin entanglements of movement and being moved by the river. Walking, writing, stories and reflecting are all part of the processes of gathering and sharing that are integral to walking with the Loddon River.
Meet the planning group
Gen Blades
My love of walking and rivers has been part of my personal and professional life. I have been involved in outdoor and...
Lisa Hall
The River runs a connection from where I grew up in Northern Victoria to my now hometown in Central Victoria...
Lesley Hodgson
Hello. My name is Lesley Hodgson and I love being outdoors. I have a background in geography and teaching...
Phil Robertson
I love spending time exploring the outdoors. I enjoy the physical nature of walking and scrambling through landscapes...
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